{"id":5251,"date":"2025-03-25T13:43:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T13:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/possible-mystery-drone-uk\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T13:43:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T13:43:43","slug":"possible-mystery-drone-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/possible-mystery-drone-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible mystery drone UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Possible Mystery Drone Sighting in Swansea, UK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date &amp; Time:<\/strong> March 20th, 8:15 PM GMT<br \/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> Swansea, UK  <\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ve spotted something unusual in the skies over Swansea. Unfortunately, I didn\u2019t manage to capture any photos or videos\u2014at first, I assumed it was just a plane. In hindsight, though, something felt off.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who has been an aircraft enthusiast for my entire life and a private pilot license holder, I usually have a good eye for these things. Swansea isn\u2019t typically busy with aircraft traffic; our small local airport shuts down by 5 PM. <\/p>\n<p>Tonight, the weather was clear, and I noticed an aircraft flying incredibly low and slow\u2014approximately 200 feet at about 100 knots or less. It had standard lights but an unusually wide wingspan in relation to its fuselage. It appeared to be propeller-driven and was surprisingly quiet as it flew due east towards Port Talbot. <\/p>\n<p>If I had to take a guess, I would say it resembled a large motor glider. Oddly enough, I couldn&#8217;t find any trace of it on Flight Radar or other tracking platforms. Around the same time, I noticed an RAF Poseidon doing multiple circuits over Cardiff, about 45 miles to the east, which I thought was curious. <\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s possible this could have been a larger military drone like a Reaper, it didn\u2019t sound like a turboprop at all. I&#8217;m left a bit perplexed by the whole experience. I\u2019m hoping for a clearer sighting in the future!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nPossible Mystery Drone Sighting in Swansea, UK Date &amp; Time: March 20th, 8:15 PM GMT Location: Swansea, UK I think I&#8217;ve spotted something unusual in the skies over Swansea. Unfortunately, I didn\u2019t manage to capture any photos or videos\u2014at first, I assumed it was just a plane. In hindsight, though, something felt off. As someone&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/possible-mystery-drone-uk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Possible mystery drone UK&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}